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Here’s a guess: Christmas is your favorite holiday. Am I right? Why? What is it about Christmas that moves us so deeply? Perhaps it’s the music. Or gathering with loved ones. Or that moment you go and pick out the tree. Or decorating that tree. Or opening the presents. Or the really good food. Or […]

November 4 through November 25 How do we find good news in a world with so much bad news? Believe it or not, it might be in your own neighborhood! In a world that’s globally connected and increasingly isolated at the same time, some of the best news we can find is to remember that […]

We live in a world that measures value by performance. We spend a lot of time talking about achievements and outcomes and results. This is tearing apart our world. The more we work towards this end alone, the more we just find ourselves tired, stressed and distanced from each other. This is not good news. […]

Have you ever felt that some things are just too impossible to change? That they’ll never change, that they’ll never heal or that relationship will never be the same? We all have these impossible mountains around us that we’ve learned to accept as immovable. But then again, what if they’re not? The gospels record three […]

Once upon a time, there was a man named Jonah. Jonah was a prophet of God who was asked to give a message to his enemies. Instead… he runs the other way… climbs into a boat with potentially violent strangers… gets thrown overboard in a raging storm… where he is swallowed by a fish… The […]

We’ve all got questions that make us feel frozen, stuck, unable to move forward or make progress. Questions that we might not want to share with anyone because we’re afraid we may be the only ones who have them. Questions about suffering, doubt, hypocrisy, the Bible, other religions, science and on and on. Questions that […]

Secret Lives | Beginning Sunday, April 15 A memory just won’t let you go. A secret gets locked up. A wound festers behind a bolted internal door. What do we do with something that is eating away at us? How are we to respond to the pain and problems that endlessly bubble up to the […]

When most of us look back on life, it’s in the uncharted territory where some of the most amazing things have happened. So often, we find ourselves led into unknown areas that challenge us, challenge our assumptions, and open up new vistas. The landscape suddenly changes, and everything we prepared for shifts. It’s also in […]

Sit at all the tables, ‘cause Jesus eats with everyone. -Nichole Nordeman, Dear Me Inside all of us is a 12-year-old trying to figure out which table to sit at in the middle school lunchroom. We were designed to desire connection. We long to belong. We were created for community. At the heart of every […]

Excavating Christmas | November 29 through December 24 The birth of Jesus was timely. Galatians 4:4-5 says, But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. What does it […]